Lawrence Brooks, the country's oldest surviving World War II veteran, died Wednesday at the age of 112, the National WWII Museum says.
, Lawrence Brooks, died Wednesday at the age of 112, according to the National WWII Museum in New Orleans.
Born in a small village outside of Baton Rouge, Brooks was one of 15 children. His parents were sharecroppers who moved to Mississippi to find work after the Great Depression, according toHe was initially discharged and returned to New Orleans in November 1941 after his obligatory year of service, but rejoined the Army following the attack on Pearl Harbor weeks later.
"You have a pilot and a co-pilot, only two of them, they're the only two who have a parachute," Brooks said."I said if they run and jump, I'm gonna grab one of them." "It's too late for him, but he wants me to go to school and I want to go to Tulane, but it's just a dream," she."If the G.I. Bill is revived, I'll have the opportunity to go back to school on my daddy's shoulders."
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